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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has threatened to sue SaharaReporters over a publication exposing how its Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and the Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya were paid gratuities while still in active service.   Gratuity is a sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of employment.   NNPCL made the threat in a letter signed by its law firm Alegeh and Co. legal practitioners and sent to the online newspaper.  

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya have jetted out to Saudi Arabia in a bid to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, SaharaReporters has gathered. This comes amid a probe of NNPCL by the lawmakers and corruption allegations against the duo.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has explained why its Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and the Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya were paid gratuities while still in active service. Gratuity is a sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of employment. SaharaReporters had exclusively reported how Kyari and Ajiya paid themselves billions of Naira as gratuities. Some other top officials of the NNPC were also said to have been paid.

A fresh crisis is brewing in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited over the alleged payment of gratuity running into billions of Naira to the Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and the Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya, SaharaReporters has learnt. Gratuity is a sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of employment. Kyari was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Group Managing Director (GMD), now known as the Group CEO of NNPC in 2019. He replaced Maikanti Baru.